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Syllabus:

History of Technology, 7.5 credits

Swedish name: Teknikens idéhistoria
This syllabus is valid: 2013-03-18 valid to 2015-10-25 (newer version of the syllabus exists)
Course code: 1IH047
Credit points: 7.5
Education level: First cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level: History of Science and Ideas: First cycle, has only upper-secondary level entry requirements
Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail
Responsible department: Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies

Required Knowledge

General entry requirements

Literature

Sundin Bosse
Den kupade handen : historien om människan och tekniken
2., utök. uppl. : Stockholm : Carlsson : 2006 : 362 s. :
ISBN: 91-7331-015-8 (inb.)
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Hughes Thomas Parke
Human-built world : how to think about technology and culture
Chicago : University of Chicago Press : 2004 : 223 s. :
ISBN: 0-226-35933-6
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Nye David E.
Technology matters : questions to live with
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press : cop. 2006 : xiv, 282 s. :
ISBN: 0-262-14093-4
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Bladh Mats
”Hughes teori om Stora tekniska system,” Historisk Tidsskrift 126, No 1
Historisk tidskrift : 2006 :

Schwartz Cowan Ruth
“The ‘Industrial Revolution’ in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century” Technology and Culture 17, No. 1
Technology and Culture : 1976 :

Douglas Susan J
”Some Thoughts on the Question "How Do New Things Happen?", Technology and Culture 51, No 2
Technology and Culture : 2010 :

Ensmenger Nathan
”The Digital Construction of Technology: Rethinking the History of Computers in Society,” Technology and Culture 53, No 4
Technology and Culture : 2012 :

“Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States” Technology and Culture 37, No. 4
Kline R., Pinch T.
Technology and Culture : 1996 :

Latour Bruno
“Where are the Missing Masses: The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts” i Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law, eds., Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change
The MIT Press : 1992 :

Marinetti Filippo Tommaso
”The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism,”
Le Figaro, Paris : 1909 :

Marx Leo
“Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept,” Technology and Culture 51, no. 3
Technology and Culture : 2010 :

“The Nature of Power: Synthesizing the History of Technology and Environmental History,” Technology and Culture 52, No 1
Russell Edmund, Allison James, Finger Thomas, Brown John K., Balogh Brian, Carlson W. Bernard
Technology and Culture : 2011 :

Strasser Susan
”Making Consumption Conspicuous: Transgressive Topics Go Mainstream,” Technology and Culture 43, No 4
Technology and Culture : 2002 :

Winner Langdon
“Do Artifacts Have Politics?” i Langdon Winner, The whale and the reactor: a search for limits in an age of high technology
University of Chicago Press : 1986 :

A Conversation with Leo Marx on "Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept"
Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier : 2012 :

Mandatory

Blum Andrew
Discover the Physical Side of the Internet
Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier : 2012 :

Mandatory

Brändén Henrik
"Om Populärvetenskapligt Skrivande
Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier :

Mandatory

"The Technological Golem" in Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology
Collins Harry, Pinch Trevor
Cambridge University Press : 1998 :
Mandatory

Edgerton David
"From Innovation to Use: Ten Eclectic Theses on the Historiography of Technology"
History and Technology 16, no 2 : 1999 :
Mandatory

Fischer Claude S.
"'Touch Someone': The Telephone Industry Discovers Sociability"
Technology and Culture, No 1 : 1988 :

Mandatory

Kranzberg Melvin
"'Technology and History: 'Kranzberg's Laws'"
Technology and Culture 27, No 3 : 1986 :

Mandatory

Latour Bruno
"Opening Pandora's Black Box"
Science in Action, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press : 1987 :
Mandatory

Ogle Maureen
"The How of the Historian - Editor's Picks"
Medium :

Mandatory

Reid
"How Roads Were Not Built for Cars"
The Guardian, April 13 : 2013 :

Mandatory

"The Age of Edison: Radical Invention and the Illuminated World"
Brain Pickings : 2013 :

Mandatory

Williams James
"Understanding the place of humans in nature" in Illusory Boundary: Technology and the Environment"
Charlotte: University of Virginia Press : 2010 :
Mandatory

"The Modern Moloch.
99 % Invisible. :

Mandatory

Sundin Bosse
Den kupade handen : historien om människan och tekniken
2., utök. uppl. : Stockholm : Carlsson : 2006 : 362 s. :
ISBN: 91-7331-015-8 (inb.)
Search the University Library catalogue

Hughes Thomas Parke
Human-built world : how to think about technology and culture
Chicago : University of Chicago Press : 2004 : 223 s. :
ISBN: 0-226-35933-6
Search the University Library catalogue

Nye David E.
Technology matters : questions to live with
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press : cop. 2006 : xiv, 282 s. :
ISBN: 0-262-14093-4
Search the University Library catalogue

Berner Boel
”Expertisen och ’den moderna husmodern’”, i Sakernas tillstånd
Carlssons, Stockholm : 1996 :

Bladh Mats
”Hughes teori om Stora tekniska system,” Historisk Tidsskrift 126, No 1
Historisk tidskrift : 2006 :

Carr Nicholas
”Is Google making us stupid?”, The Atlantic Magazine (July/August)
The Atlantic Magazine : 2008 :

Schwartz Cowan Ruth
“The ‘Industrial Revolution’ in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century” Technology and Culture 17, No. 1
Technology and Culture : 1976 :

Douglas Susan J
”Some Thoughts on the Question "How Do New Things Happen?", Technology and Culture 51, No 2
Technology and Culture : 2010 :

Edgerton David
“Innovation, Technology, or History: What is the Historiography of Technology About?”, Technology and Culture 51, No 3
Technology and Culture : 2010 :

Ensmenger Nathan
”The Digital Construction of Technology: Rethinking the History of Computers in Society,” Technology and Culture 53, No 4
Technology and Culture : 2012 :

Hughes Thomas P.
”The Evolution of Large Technological Systems,” i Wiebe E. Bijker, Thomas P. Hughes, & Trevor J. Pinch, red., The Social Construction of Technological Systems
The MIT Press : 1987 :

“Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States” Technology and Culture 37, No. 4
Kline R., Pinch T.
Technology and Culture : 1996 :

Kranakis Eda
”Patents and Power: European Patent-System Integration in the Context of Globalization,” Technology and Culture 48, No 4
Technology and Culture : 2007 :

Latour Bruno
“Where are the Missing Masses: The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts” i Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law, eds., Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change
The MIT Press : 1992 :

Marinetti Filippo Tommaso
”The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism,”
Le Figaro, Paris : 1909 :

Marx Leo
“Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept,” Technology and Culture 51, no. 3
Technology and Culture : 2010 :

“The Nature of Power: Synthesizing the History of Technology and Environmental History,” Technology and Culture 52, No 1
Russell Edmund, Allison James, Finger Thomas, Brown John K., Balogh Brian, Carlson W. Bernard
Technology and Culture : 2011 :

Shirky Clay
”Gin, Technology, and Cognitive Surplus,” i Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
The Penguin Press : 2010 :

Strasser Susan
”Making Consumption Conspicuous: Transgressive Topics Go Mainstream,” Technology and Culture 43, No 4
Technology and Culture : 2002 :

Swanson Kara W.
”The Emergence of the Professional Patent Practitioner,” Technology and Culture 50, No 3
Technology and Culture : 2009 :

Winner Langdon
“Do Artifacts Have Politics?” i Langdon Winner, The whale and the reactor: a search for limits in an age of high technology
University of Chicago Press : 1986 :